Technology has a tendency to highlight the generation gap. It used be the running joke that if you wanted to program your VCR that you should ask a ten year old to do it for you.

Back in the days when I was paid actual money for performimg menial tasks, I was considered something of a technology guru (yes, I laugh too). Just because I could use google. Of course I never told them how easy it was … they might have realised I was faking it!

And I’ve also noticed there are those people who will phone you to let you know they are sending you an email. I’m holding my BlackBerry, taking a call from you telling me to check for an email. By the time you’ve finished your salutations, I COULD HAVE READ THE EMAIL.

My husband is three months yonger than me. I love his birthday because it means he’ll stop the “cradle snatcher” jokes he uses at every opportunity between my birthday and his.

I was trying to explain Plurk to him on the weekend. He’s pretty geeky, and my other port of call when I have technical issues, but he just doesn’t get it. He actually said “I’m getting too old”. I know I’m getting old because of the grey hairs and the wrinkles. He knows he’s getting old because he doesn’t ‘get’ plurk

Happy birthday, sweetie!